Jeremy Clarkson in pictures

Pictures of the former BBC Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson.

Jeremy Clarkson lets his big belly hang out during filming in Barbados

“To create a United States of Europe that functions as well as the United States of America?

“With one army and one currency and one unifying set of values?”

He also called for intense media scrutiny on the EU, which would “make the Continent work the way the Continent should – as a liberal, kind, balanced fulcrum in a mad world that could soon have Trump on one side and Putin on the other”.

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The ex-Top Gear presenter says he "loves Europe"

Clarkson’s decision to back remain will bolster the David Cameron, a fellow member of the so-called “Chipping Norton set”.

The 55 year-old also slated the rivalry between Boris Johnson and the Prime Minister, telling the Sunday Times: "We are not choosing which Old Etonian we prefer.

"It's more complicated than that, and we need the proper campaigning because none of us really knows what's for the best."